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Feeding Behavior of Modern Bryozoans

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2017

Judith E. Winston
Judith E. Winston*
Affiliation:
Department of Invertebrates, American Museum of Natural History, New York, New York 10024
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“You are what you eat,” so the health food devotees claim, but if you are a bryozoan, “you are where you eat,” as well. Bryozoans are suspension feeders, dependent for their food on extracting edible particles from the water currents surrounding them. Most bryozoans are also sessile, unable to move from the place where the larva attached (except by that slow “movement” over the substratum that occurs by growth and decay of portions of the colony). Thus, colony morphology is inextricably linked to the way in which the colony processes water for food.

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Research Article
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Series in Geology, Notes for Short Course , Volume 5: Lophophorates: Notes for a Short Course , 1981 , pp. 1 - 21
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Copyright © 1981 University of Tennessee, Knoxville 

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